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Tour route Next section Previous section Back to Notre-Dame Est Boulevard Saint-Laurent Rue Notre-Dame West The Old Seminary and Notre-Dame Place d’Armes Rue Saint-Jacques Des Récollets Around Rue de l’Hôpital Rue Saint-Paul, near Place d’Youville Place d’Youville Western end of the Old Port Pointe-à-Callière and Place Royale Saint-Paul and de la Commune From Saint-Amable to Saint-Gabriel Place Jacques-Cartier Eastern end of the Old Bonsecours From Bonsecours to Berri Rue Notre-Dame East Champ-de-Mars
Telecommunications 

Montréal Telegraph

 

  
 Down to the water 

Business and stone 

And fires! 

Around Rue de l’Hôpital

 

As far back as 1874, hundreds of wires led to the roof of the elegant Montréal Telegraph building, the heart of a vast telegraphic system. The Chambers Telegraph building, nearby, was built in 1900 to house the telecommunication services of Canadian Pacific. 
 

Federal Telephone
Telegraph operators at work for the Federal Telephone Company in 1891, on Rue Saint-Sacrement. 

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